The Justice Department is starting to pursue people online who dox or otherwise identify members of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies — but national security analyst claims U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is ignoring it when her friends dox top officials.
Writing Thursday, Marcy Wheeler pointed to recent arrests of a "number of people for doxing under 18 USC 119, a law that specifically protects law enforcement officers: first Gregory Curcio (who not only posted the address of an ICE lawyer, but invited others to swat her; his indictment included a domestic violence claim). Then Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh Brown, and Sandra Carmona Samane, who livestreamed from the house of an ICE officer they followed home."
That flies in the face of a Jan. 6 attacker who, years after the Capitol riot, was accused of gathering weapons and coming after former President Barack Obama.
Mentally ill Navy veteran Tayler Taranto stalked Obama in 2023, court documents claim. After participating in the Jan. 6 attack, he later livestreamed his search for the Obamas' Washington, D.C. home while fully armed. In the initial sentencing memo, Wheeler said that prosecutors detailed the effort, including links to President Donald Trump egging him on.
"On January 6, 2021, thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol while a joint session of Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. Taranto was accused of participating in the riot in Washington, D.C., by entering the U.S. Capitol Building. After the riot, Taranto returned to his home in the State of Washington, where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6, 2021," the sentencing documents read.
As ABC and Politico reported this week, the two prosecutors were put on leave after writing the report, and the prosecutors who took over the case refiled a new sentencing memo.
"The next day, on June 29, 2023, then-former President Donald Trump published on a social media platform the purported address of former President Barack Obama. Taranto re-posted the address on the same platform and thereafter started livestreaming from his van on his YouTube channel. Taranto broadcast footage of himself as he drove through the [DC] neighborhood in Washington, D.C., claiming he was searching for 'tunnels' he believed would provide him access to the private residences of certain high-profile individuals, including former President Obama."
Wheeler pointed out that Trump was a private citizen in June 2023.
"As I said, if it weren’t for a recent shifted prosecutorial focus, criminalizing doxing partly as a way to criminalize otherwise peaceful protest against ICE and CBP, this kind of memory hole would be merely another instance of gross corruption and the human waste of professional careers destroyed because the aspiring dictator refuses to take accountability for his own actions," she added.
Wheeler called the doxing of the Obamas "more consequential" than the women who told neighbors that they lived next to an ICE agent.
"Taranto was armed and, not least because of his mental health problems, dangerous," Wheeler continued. "Donald Trump’s own DOJ says the kind of doxing Donald Trump did should hold a five year sentencing in prison. And DOJ just took ham-handed steps to pretend Trump didn’t do just that."

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